| 单词 | decimate |
| 释义 | decimate (desɪmeɪt ) Word forms: decimates , decimating , decimated 1. verb To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them. The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers. [VERB noun] British forces in the Caribbean were being decimated by disease. [VERB noun] Synonyms: destroy, devastate, wipe out, ravage decimation (desɪmeɪʃən ) uncountable noun [usually NOUN of noun] ...the decimation of the great rain forests. 2. verb To decimate a system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly. ...a recession which decimated the nation's manufacturing industry. [VERB noun] Synonyms: reduce, diminish, decrease, weaken decimation uncountable noun [usually NOUN of noun] Government policies have resulted in a decimation of essential services used by the poor. Collocations: decimate the population Every now and again, just for fun, the programmers would send a plague to decimate your population and reduce your earnings. Times, Sunday Times But rampant whaling so decimated the population that by 1925 only an estimated 25 were left. Times, Sunday Times With suppression of this trade the economy collapsed and disease and local warfare decimated the population. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There were at least three, separate, major epidemics that decimated the population: smallpox (1520 to 1521), measles (1545 to 1548) and typhus (1576 to 1581). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were especially adversely affected by epidemics of infectious disease, which decimated their population, as well as intertribal and colonial warfare. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 大量毁灭 Japanese: 多くを殺す |
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